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Cuyahoga County schedules pair of February workshops to teach about $100 college savings account program

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald announced a pair of workshops for later this month to teach parents of county kindergartners about how to use his college savings account program.
(Gus Chan, Plain Dealer file photo)

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald on Tuesday announced a pair of financial literacy workshops that will serve as a vanguard for his $100 college savings account program.

The workshops, one in Shaker Heights on Feb. 13, and one in Parma on Feb. 26, are meant to encourage the use of the college savings accounts, as well as teach general money management skills, like setting financial goals, adjusting spending to save for college and introducing children to the concept of saving.

“It’s important that we, as a community, provide pathways for families to be successful in planning for their children’s future,” FitzGerald, a Democrat, said in a written statement. “In partnership with KeyBank, we are proud to help make financial literacy accessible to all Cuyahoga County residents, regardless of their background, neighborhood or income.”

The actual accounts aren’t open yet, but should be sometime before the end of this school year, county officials said. They will be opened in the names of the county’s roughly 15,000* kindergartners in the 2013-14 class.

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